Beech currently serves as parliamentary secretary for fisheries, oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard. He is a former Nanaimo city councillor and an entrepreneur.

Beech has felt the heat at points from his constituents, after telling voters on the campaign trail that Trudeau would change the process for reviewing pipeline applications.

The Trudeau government did introduce reforms to that process earlier this year, moving to transform the National Energy Board (NEB) into the Canadian Energy Regulator and to create a new Impact Assessment Agency to review environmental, health and Indigenous concerns.